Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-17
NEWS NOTES.

husband. She claims to have been spirite,
away a few days ago by man names
Charles Haka, who is under arrest. Sh
was noticed and her identity established b!
her fainting in the street at Cleveland.
J.Hal Reid, highly younl
man, of st. Paul, was convicted OF rape.
MI. Howles, of the bark Freeman, wa.
arrested in New York for murder on tht
high seas. He is charged with having sho
and killed Japanese passenger on his boa
n August.
Andrew Williams, of Laurens, s. c., threw
his wife into the fire and tried to burn hel
to death because she refused to deed him bel
property.
The discovery of petroleum in the vicinity
of San Antonio, Tex, has caused great ex-
element in that locality.
Jerry Manning was shot and killed at Hell
ena, Montana, by John McFirnan. Both
were gamblers.
A Delegation of Nebraska men passed
through Chicago Sunday on their way to
Washington, were they are going for the
purpose of presenting Omaha's claims to the
national republican convention.
Some uneasiness is felt in Dakota because
the supply of coal is SO low that it would be
insufficient for the wants of the people in
case of a protracted spell of cold weather.
The title of count was conferred upon John
Good, of New York, by the pope.
Gail Hamilton sailed for France to join
James G. Blaine and other relatives.
committee representing the anti
Labor in Philadelphia has sent out circular
which contains summary of the abuses
that are said to exist in the order owing to
the bad management of Powderly and his
friends. rebellious Knight of this city
says that the organization is certainly going
to pieces, and that its strength will be used
to build up trades-union and political labor
movement.
Peter Bennett, wealthy farmer of New
port, Maine, was shot and severely beaten
by burglars, who robbed him of 49,, 900 in
bills and gold.
A case of extreme cruelty on the part of
to light in Canada. Shortly after the
departure of the ship Hebe from Rio de
Janeiro, last August, smallpox broke out
among the crew. and the captain ran the
boat ashore on a desolate island belonging
to the Magdalen group. Word was sent to
the owners by government steamer, but
they have paid no attention to the appeals Of
the unfortunate men, on the ground that
they had no right to run the vessel ashore.
larton Station, Nova Scotia, Monday, three
men were killed.
Now that M. Sadi Carnot has been elected
president of France, a subscription has been
started for the purpose of erecting a monu-
ment to his grandfather. It is rumored that
nj. Goblet will be prime minister in the new
cabinet, and that M. Flourens will remain
minister of foreign affairs.
'Bill' Gallagher appeared as witness for
the defendant in the case of August Mette
d Co. against the Illinois Mutual Insurance
company, which came up for hearing in
a Chicago court Tuesday. His residence at
Joliet has so changed his appearance that
his most intimate friends would hardly
recognize him.
The trial was begun in New York Tuesday
of two suits brought by the Banque Franco
Egyptlenne. of Paris, and Henry l.. Bis |
choffschein, of London, against John Crosby
Brown and others for about $6,000,OC0 |
President Monahan, of the Switchmen's |
National union, arrived in Milwaukee Tues |
day, to take part in the fight of the local
switchmen against the railroad companies.
Their demand is for an increase of pay to
the Chicago standard. The impression pre-
walls that it will not be granted.
A Cincinnati paper publishes number of
letters which. it is asserted, were written by
Harper, the Fidelity bank wrecker. to Miss
Josie Holmes, his former exchange clerk.
They are of decidedly amatory nature,
and were given up for publication by Charles
Hopkins, son of the assistant cashier of the
bank, who secured possession of them while
acting as messenger between Harper and
the young woman, and who kept them be-
cause he saw that Harper was trying to
shoulder the responsibility for the banks
failure upon his father. At the trial, Thurs
day, the testimony for the government was
concluded. The defense will open Friday,
and it is thought that Harper will be the
only witness called.
Archabbot Boniface WINNER, founder of
the Benedictine order in the United States,
died Thursday at st. Vincent's abbey, West
moreland county, Pennsylvania.
At the meeting of the wool-growers and
wooldealers in Washington, Thursday, a
vigorous protest was made against that por-
ton of the presidents message which recon-
mends reduction in the customs duties on
wool.
1t is the general impression at Washington
that there is not the slightest possibility that
the nomination of Mr.. Lamar as Justice of
The supreme court will be rejected, though it
is expected that number of republican SEN
ators will vote against him.
The jury in the Rainsbarger murder case
at Marshaltown, Iowa, are unable to agree,
and the judge proposes to keep them out un-
til Sunday if they do not come to an under
standing before that time.
Mrs. Fellowes, an insane woman living at
Toronto, Canada, killed her baby, Thursday,
by cutting off its head.
The report of the committee appointed to
investigate the charges against ex-Warden
Reed, of the Saltwater, Minnesota peniten-
tiary, wholly exonerates him.
August Lester, of Bucks county, Penn
sylvania, who was sentenced recently to a
long term In the penitentiary for shooting
his wife, committed suicide in his cell
Thursday night by hanging himself with
towel.
At a meeting of Catholics in Vienna a
strong feeling was manifested in favor of
the restoration of the papacy to temporal
power. 1t is not probable that such demon
STATIONS will have any effect upon the Ital-
ian government, which has shown itself
quite capable of managing its own affairs
without assistance of any suggestions from